Whether or not you are a fan of Facebook, there is one thing you cannot deny: Facebook is huge.
It is the most-used website on the internet, and has the potential to vastly increase your web traffic.
Even without a presence on Facebook yourself, opening the doors to a flood of new traffic to your website from this social media leviathan takes less than a minute - less time, in fact, than it takes to read this article - simply by installing a Facebook Like Button to your blog.
The Facebook Like button gives anyone with a Facebook account the ability to quickly and easily express their approval of your web page and automatically share the news with their friends.
Their Facebook avatar will also then appear on your page so when their friends find your page, they will see their friends' faces and, perhaps, stick around just a little longer than they might have.
Installation takes about 30 seconds.
1.
Go to your WordPress Plugin Page and click on "Add New"; 2.
Type in "Facebook Like Button" and click Search Plugins; 3.
Scroll through the available options and choose the one that looks best for you.
Read the reviews, see how many people are using them.
Personally, I use the one created by Todd Williams.
4.
Click Install and follow the instructions to activate it.
5.
Once the Facebook Like plugin is installed, just go to Settings on the left menu of your WordPress Dashboard and you will find a new entry for Facebook Like.
Click on that and you can customize where the button is placed on your WordPress Blog.
Upon installing this feature onto his blog, a friend recently told me that his web traffic quadrupled within a month.
Your results may not be as impressive, but for the sake of only a few mouse clicks, it is certainly worth the risk.